Television in Your Room
What You Need | DTV Transition and UA Cable Television | Cable TV Service | Residence Life Cable Television System Channel Lineups | Using Streaming Devices (“Slingboxes”™) With Your TV | Using TiVo/DVR in Your Room
What You Need
Make sure that your TV is cable-ready and able to receive at least 80 analog cable channels. Have the owner’s manual for your television available.
DTV Transition and UA Cable Television
On June 12, 2009, analog television stations will shut down their analog transmitters as the last phase of the transition to Digital Television (DTV). The DTV transition applies only to television received over the air with an antenna and will have no impact on services offered on the UA cable system. We have already taken precautions so that UA cable television service will not be disrupted. The DTV transition will not affect UA cable TV services in any way. You will not need to change or update equipment in any way in order to continue to receive the cable service you have today.
If you happen to see any message on any television channel on the UA cable television system that your television set is not capable of receiving broadcasts after June 12, you can safely disregard it.
For more information about the DTV transition, please see:
- The Digital TV Transition: What You Need to Know About DTV
- DTVTransition.org - A New Era in Television Broadcasting
Cable TV Service
The University of Arizona provides the equivalent of "expanded basic" cable TV services to all campus housing facilities except Babcock, La Aldea and Sky View Apartments. Cox Communications, the local cable TV provider in the city of Tucson, provides service to these three facilities.
Installing Your Cable TV
The instructions that follow are generic in nature and are meant to serve only as guidelines. Refer to your TV owner's manual for specific instructions for your set.
- Connect the TV to the cable wall jack using a coaxial cable. If the TV has more than one input jack, select the one labeled "CABLE" or "CATV."
- Plug the TV power cord into an electrical outlet and turn the TV power on.
- Configure your set to receive CABLE or CATV signals, usually accessed through a MENU or SETUP option on the TV's remote control. Refer to your TV owner's manual for specific directions for your set.
- Program the TV to receive channels (usually accomplished using the same MENU or SETUP option used above) by locating and selecting an option labeled AUTOPROGRAM. The TV will search through all channels and program the working channels. Refer to your TV owner's manual for specific directions for your set.
Your TV should now receive all campus channels. If you feel there is a problem with the cable wall jack, report it by completing and submitting a maintenance request (Area Maintenance Forms are typically available and submitted near the front desk of your residence). Please be advised that Residence Life staff are not available to help you set up your television; you must do that yourself.
Residence Life Cable Television System Channel Lineups
These lineups became effective August 15, 2008, and are subject to change.
Cable Lineup for On-Campus Residence Halls
Click the link to view a printable on-campus cable lineup in convenient .PDF format.
Cable Lineup for Babcock, La Aldea and Sky View Apartments
Babcock, La Aldea and Sky View Apartments have a different cable provider (Cox Communications) than do the on-campus residence halls.
Cox Communications provides basic and expanded cable for residents of these off-campus halls. Residents may expand their service directly by going through Cox Communications.
Please go to Cox's cable lineup to view your cable lineup. The page defaults to the Phoenix area lineup. To get Tucson's lineup, open the Show lineup for drop-down box and select Tucson, as shown below:
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| Finding the Tucson Channel Lineup on the Cox Web Site |
Using Streaming Devices (“Slingboxes”™) With Your TV
Streaming devices re-route cable TV to the internet so that programming can be viewed on your computer in a browser window. The most familiar brand of such device is the Slingbox™, manufactured by Sling Media.
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| Two Different Models of Slingbox™ |
Residents may have and use such appliances in UA residence halls, but there is no guarantee that they will work. If they use too much bandwidth on the academic network, Residence Life may choose to cap/cut off the device’s usage.
Residence Life does not provide any support for streaming devices.
Using TiVo/DVR in Your Room
As long as your TiVo/DVR doesn’t interfere with the UA network, you may use it. Residence Life does not provide any support for TiVo/DVR.
Connecting TiVo/DVR with the Ethernet
If your machine connects via the Ethernet, you must find and register its hardware address. Generally, the hardware address will be printed on the boilerplate sticker attached to the outside of the machine, or you will be able to discover it through the device’s setup menu. Once you have found the device’s hardware address/physical address, register it on the network the same way you registered your computer’s physical address (see Connecting to the Network Using an Ethernet Connection).
Using Your TiVo/DVR with a Wireless Connection
If your DVR/TiVo device is wireless, you can connect it to UA WiFi. However, you must register the device for UA WiFi the same way you register a wireless computer (see Connecting to to the Network Using UA WiFi.
